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My UFC 107 Predictions

Not knowing what my schedule will be like over the next few weeks, I decided to go ahead and share my brilliance with all of you a bit earlier than usual. UFC 107, which will be held December 12 at the Fed Ex Forum in Memphis. will be the second UFC even in the state [...]

M-1 Global and HDNET Team Up To Anoint Fedor Emelianenko As A God

For those of you who have criticized the UFC media train for being embarrassingly one-sided, I give you M-1 Global. Fedor Emelianenko’s management group teamed up with HDNET to produce a half-hour-long stroke job about the man many consider the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Talk about waxing poetic. I was so turned [...]

UFC 107, a look ahead

As it stands, UFC 107 is poised to cast a shadow over the recent UFC 106 event with a main event between two former 170 pounders who are both looking to continue their wins at 155 pounds and a co-main that may start the look for an interim heavyweight champ.  The remainder of the main [...]

Live at Pain on Penn Street 2 in Reading, PA

Brandt DeLorenzo will be the ringside photographer at Pain on Penn Street 2 in Reading, PA on December 4th for a night of professional boxing and MMA at the Sovereign Center. Doors open at 6PM and the fights begin just an hour later. The venue is pretty big so come out and support the sport. [...]

MMA judges or legislatures

Observing action in the fight then scoring it based on a set of predefined rules, that should be the MMA judge’s job. Instead, judges in our beloved sport observe the action, make up the rules and then score that action based on those made up rules each fight.

TUF 10 Sucked: Here’s Why and How to fix it

This is the tenth season of The Ultimate Fighter.  The UFC’s can’t miss weekly reality show is losing its luster, and fast!  To be honest, you could probably say that it lost it a long time ago.  This season was supposed to be the one that generated the most popularity, was to be the unveiling [...]

Independent World MMA Rankings: November, 2009

November 27, 2009: The November 2009 Independent World MMA Rankings have been released. These rankings are independent of any single MMA media outlet or sanctioning body, and are published on multiple web sites. In addition to the numerous MMA web sites that publish the Independent World MMA Rankings, you can also access the rankings at [...]

MMA link review (our friends hooked us up with greatness)

Things have been crazy of late.  The UFC took a couple of weeks off and came back with a vengence.  Two straight weekends of action has everyone talking.  Here are what our friends are talking about! Randy fought…he won, but coulda lost….HERE IS THE LINK OF WHAT ON JUDGE HAD TO SAY If you mess [...]

UFC 106 Payouts

Fighters all around the world talk about the addition of a fighters union all the time.  If they all got paid like Forrest and Tito, far less would complain! Here is the announced payments for UFC 106.  Keep in mind this does not include extra (unspecified) bonus money, sponsorships, or other random financial additions with [...]

UFC 106 Videos

Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin II Josh Koscheck vs. Anthony Johnson Paulo Thiago vs. Jacob Volkmann Amir Sadollah vs. Phil Baroni Brian Foster vs. Brock Larson Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Luiz Arthur Cane Marcus Davis vs. Ben Saunders George Sotiropoulos vs. Jason Dent Kendall Grove vs. Jake Rosholt